The Best of CafeLit 3

All about CafeLit

CafeLit is the e-zine that supports the Creative Café Project. The Creative Café Project looks at identifying cafés that support the arts and encourages cafés in these endeavours. The e-zine helps to raise awareness of the project and actually supports it financially. CafeLit is also a platform for publishing short fiction.  Its unique selling point is that each story is associated with a drink and each story would ideally be read in a coffee break.

The Best of CafeLit

Each year we also publish a book in paperback and Kindle from the best stories produced the previous year. Debz Hobbs-Wyatt is currently the editor of the e-zine She and I take it in turns making the selection each year for the book. It was my turn when it came to The Best of CafeLit 3.

October 2014 Newsletter, slightly belated

I guess my biggest news at the moment is that I’ve been promoted to Senior lecturer at the University of Salford. It’s a nice feeling. It sort of confirms that I’ve been doing a few things right. Not that the pressure goes away – if anything there’s more. Current challenges: improve NSS scores, retention, continuation, completion and recruit more students. Oh, and fit in a little research and writing!   
We’ve just had Reading / Writing Week and I’ve been out and about doing some unusual things: school visits, visit to Ireland, where I’ve made one or two interesting connections, and a conference.
I’ve managed to do a little more research towards my book on Children’s Literature. Some of the material at Trinity College, Dublin was extremely interesting, especially to do with the connection to myths. This also feeds nicely into a lecture I’m delivering next week.